CURRICULUM VITAE Bjorn Emonts Associate Scientist National Radio Astronomy Observatory Name (last, first) Emonts, Bjornie Hendrikus Cornelius Address NRAO, 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone 434-296-0391 Email [email protected] Education 2006 Nov Ph. D. (Astronomy), University of Groningen 2001 Aug M. S. (Physics & Astronomy), University of Groningen / STScI, Baltimore 1997 Aug B. S. (Physics & Astronomy), University of Groningen Employment 2017/07–current National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville VA Associate Scientist, CASA User Liaison 2012/07–2017/06 Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain EU Marie Curie Fellowship / Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 2008/09–2012/06 Australia Telescope National Facility, Sydney, Aus Bolton Fellowship 2006/08–2008/08 Columbia University, New York Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellowship (Prof. J. van Gorkom) Academic appointments 2002/05–2006/05 University of Groningen, Netherlands - PhD thesis: ''Nearby Radio Galaxies: the interplay of gas, star formation & active nucleus'' (Prof. R. Morganti) 2003/03-2003/05, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. 2005/06-2005/07 Visiting PhD student (Prof. C.N. Tadhunter) 2000/09–2001/06 Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD B.S. internship: “Photodissociation as tracer for H2 in M81” (Prof. R.J. Allen) 1998/12–1999/02 ASTRON, Dwingeloo & SRON, Groningen, Netherlands Internship: “Testing Fabry-Perrot Etalon for VLT VISIR” (Prof. J.W. Pel) Grants & awards as Principal Investigator 2020 - $30k NASA HST Data Analysis Award, program 16123 2018 - $4k Student Observing Support grant NRAO 2013 - €230k Marie Curie Intra-EU Fellowship, FP7 grant 624351 2008 - $42k NASA Spitzer Data Analysis Award, program 40453 2006 - €82k Rubicon Stipend, Netherlands Org. for Scientific Research, grant 680.50.0508 2003 - €3k Research Travel Grant, Netherl. Org. for Scientific Research, R 78-379 Allocated observing time as Principal Investigator 51 (172) hrs Atacama Large Millimeter Array (8 projects: cycle-3: 2015.1.00851 & 1.00897; cycle-4: 2016.1.01417 & .2.00048; cycle-6: 2018.1.00293 & 1.00859 &1.01334, cycle-7: 2019.1.01251) 458 hrs Very Large Array (18 projects: AE151, 07A-217, 08A-139, 10A-127, 11B-048, 11B-086, 12A-152, 14B-160, 15A-316, 15B-005, 16B-296, 17A-174, 17B-444, 19A-351, 19B-225, 19B- 184, 20B-428, 21A-059) 933 hrs Australia Telescope Compact Array, NSW, Australia (9 projects: C1170, C1382, C1497, C1867, C2052, C2498, C2885, C2717, C3096) 398 hrs Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, Netherlands (7 projects: R05A/022 ; R04A/31; R07A010; R09B014; R10A014; R10B009; R10B021) 22 hrs Plateau de Bure Interferometer (1 project: W15EB) 7.5 hrs Spitzer Space Telescope (1 project: 40453) - Hubble Space Telescope (1 Archival Research project: 16123) 17 hrs Very Large Telescope, Chile (2 projects: SINFONI 093.B-0458, VIMOS 097.A-0503) 11 hrs Gran Telescopio Canarias 10m, Spain (3 projects: 69015B, 19-16B, 47-17B) 4 nights William Herschel Telescope, Spain (2 projects w2003bN5, sw2003a34) 6 nights MDM Observatory 2.4m, Kitt Peak, US (2 projects) Supervised students 2020-current Mr. Jianrui Li , Ph. D. student, Tsinghua University, China (primary co-supervisor, together with Prof. Zheng Cai) 2020-current Ms. Emiko Gardiner, undergraduate student, University of Virginia (secondary supervisor, primary supervision by Dr. Ilsang Yoon) 2018-current Ms. Sophie Lebowitz, NAC student, Ohio State University (primary supervisor) 2019 Mr. Shane Bechtel, NRAO summer student, Arizona State University (primary supervisor, together with Dr. Ilsang Yoon) 2010-2011 Mr. Jeffrey Hodgson, ATNF summer student, Curtin University, Perth Australia (primary supervisor) 2009-2010 Mr. Craig Burnett, ATNF summer student, University of Melbourne, Australia (primary supervisor) Committees / professional activities (last 10 years) Current Stakeholder Representative CASA Users Committee & Community Current NRAO TAC: member Science Review Panel for the high-z universe Current Referee peer-reviewed journals MNRAS, A&A and PASJ Current, 2016-17 ATNF TAC: External Reader Time Allocation Committee 2019-2010 Local Organizing Committee, CASA Users Committee F2F meeting 2017-2018 National Astronomy Consortium (NAC) tutor and mentor 2014-2016 Journal Club organizer, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) 2008-2016 Duty astronomer, Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATNF) 2011-2012 Colloquium organizer, Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATNF) 2011 Local Organizing Committee, Australian ALMA Community Workshop Research expertise (and interests) Cold Molecular Medium around high-z galaxies Aim & Technique Detect molecular gas across the circum- and inter-galactic medium at high-z, and study its role in galaxy evolution; cold accretion, feedback, enrichment. Low-surface-brightness mm interferometry. (HST imaging of diffuse starlight). Galaxy evolution in the Early Universe Aim & Technique Study the co-evolution of distant black holes, galaxies & proto-clusters. Mm interferometry of cold gas with VLA/ALMA. (JWST H2 IR-spectroscopy). AGN feedback and outflows Aim & Technique Outflows of neutral/molecular gas to study the effects of AGN feedback. HI absorption at high spectral-dynamic range; H2 near-IR spectroscopy. Origin and evolution of radio galaxies Aim & Technique Study co-evolution of AGN, host galaxies and circum-galactic medium. HI 21cm spectroscopy, radio-continuum imaging, optical imaging/spectroscopy Galaxy evolution with a Next-Generation VLA Aim & Technique Prepare science cases for ngVLA, emphasizing its core configuration Low-surface-brightness observations with the ngVLA core (CASA simulations). PUBLICATION LIST Summary (10 Jan 2021) Total number publications in refereed journals 71 (31% as PI) Total number proceedings / white papers / thesis 43 (37% as PI) Total number of citations: 2170 (26% on PI papers) H-index: 27 Selected Journal Papers - major contribution** ** Principal Investigator or 1st/2nd co-I 1. Murthy, S., Morganti, R., Emonts, B., and 3 co-authors, 2020, A&A, 643, 74: “Disc galaxy resolved in HI absorption against the radio lobe of 3C 433: Case study for future surveys” 2. Lehnert, M., Yang, C., Emonts, B., and 4 co-authors, 2020, A&A, 641, 124: “Etching glass in the Early Universe: Luminous HF and H2O emission in a QSO-SMG pair at z = 4.7” 3. Emonts, B., Cai, Z., Prochaska, J. X., Li, Q., Lehnert, M., 2019, ApJ, 887, 86: “The cold circumgalactic environment of MAMMOTH-I: dynamically cold gas in the core of an Enormous Lyα Nebula” 4. Emonts, B., Lehnert, M., Dannerbauer, H. and 9 co-authors, 2018, MNRAS, 477, 60: “Giant galaxy growing from recycled gas: ALMA maps the circumgalactic molecular medium of the Spiderweb in [CI]” 5. Villar-Martin, M., Emonts, B. H. C., Cabrera Lavers, A., and 7 co-authors, 2017, MNRAS, 472, 4659: “Galaxy-wide radio-induced feedback in a radio-quiet quasar” 6. Dannerbauer, H., Lehnert, M., Emonts, B., and 18 co-authors, 2017, A&A 608, 48: “The implications of the surprising existence of a large massive CO disk in a distant protocluster” 7. Emonts, B. H. C., Colina, L., Piqueras-Lopez, J., and 5 co-authors, 2017, A&A, 607, 116: “Outflows of hot molecular gas in ultra-luminous infrared galaxies mapped with VLT-SINFONI” 8. Huynh, M. T., Emonts, B. H. C., Kimball, A. M., and 13 co-authors, 2017, MNRAS, 467, 1222: “The AT-LESS CO(1-0) survey of submm galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South” 9. Emonts, B. H. C., Lehnert, M.D., Villar-Martín, M., Norris, R., and 18 co-authors, 2016, Science, 354, 1128: “Molecular Gas in the Halo of a Massive Cluster Galaxy During its Assembly at High Redshift” 10. Emonts, B., Morganti, R., Villar-Martín, M. and 5 co-authors, 2016, A&A 591, 19: “From galaxy- scale fueling to nuclear feedback: merger state of radio galaxies 3C 293, 3C 305 & 4C 12.50” 11. Villar-Martín, M., Arribas S., Emonts, B., and 5 co-authors, 2016, MNRAS, 460, 130: “Ionized outflows in type 2 AGNs at z < 0.6: no evidence for significant impact on the host galaxies” 12. Emonts, B. H. C.; De Breuck, C.; Lehnert, M., and 9 co-authors, 2015, A&A, 584, 99: “The Dragonfly Galaxt II: ALMA unveils a triple merger and gas exchange in a hyper-luminous radio galaxy at z=2” 13. Emonts, B. H. C., Mao, M. Y., Stroe, A., Pentericci, L., Villar-Martín, M., Norris, R. P., Miley, G., De Breuck, C., and 12 co-authors 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1025: “A CO-rich merger shaping a powerful and hyperluminous infrared radio galaxy at z = 2: the Dragonfly Galaxy” 14. Emonts, B., Piqueras-López, J., Colina, L. and 6 co-authors 2014, MNRAS, 572, 40: “Outflow of hot and cold molecular gas from the obscured secondary nucleus of NGC 3256: closing in on feedback physics” 15. Villar-Martín M., Emonts B., Humprhey A., and 2 co-authors, 2014, MNRAS, 440, 3203: “The triggering mechanism and properties of ionized outflows in the nearest obscured quasars” 16. Mao M. Y., Norris R. P., Emonts B., and 5 co-authors: 2014, MNRAS, 440, 31: “Star formation in the ultraluminous infrared galaxy F00183-7111” 17. Rodríguez, M., Villar-Martín M., Emonts B., and 4 co-authors 2014, A&A, 565, 19: “The molecular gas content of ULIRG type 2 quasars at z < 1” 18. Emonts B., Norris R., Feain I., Mao M., Ekers R., Miley G. and 16 co-authors 2014, MNRAS, 438, 2898: “CO(1-0) survey of high-z radio galaxies: alignment of molecular halo gas with distant radio sources” 19. Villar-Martín M., Emonts B., Rodríguez, and 2 co-authors, 2013, MNRAS, 432, 2104: “SDSS J002531.46-104022.2 at z = 0.30: a candidate for the (U)LIRG to optical quasar transition” 20. Emonts B. H. C., Feain I., Roettgering H. J. A., Miley G, Seymour N., Norris R. P., Villar-Martín M., Carilli C. L., and 9 co-authors, 2013, MNRAS, 430, 3465: “CO(1-0) detection of the massive Spiderweb Galaxy (z~2) with the Australia Telescope Compact Array” 21. Allison, J. R.; Curran, S.